A Disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (22 February 2014)

Yes, Pacific Rim has great CGI and some of the fight scenes are good and then some are just plain stupid. A sword that finally appears towards the end of a battle? Why wasn't it used earlier? Some of the acting was poor, the script needed a lot more spit and polish, and mainly, it just needed more plausibility. Why would jet aircraft with stand off missiles that could be used miles away, or at least with cannons that could be used far enough away as too not be swatted by the monsters, have the need to fly so close to shoot bullets? Ludicrous, or had I fallen asleep by that time and missed any explanation offered to this!? A little more awful and Pacific Rim might have edged itself towards the, "its so bad its almost good sort of science fiction that becomes a cult hit". But no, it's firmly rooted in mediocrity and deserves to live out its rental days in the "Blah" section of the video store. I am a lover of science fiction, but not of this type of big budget nonsense. Rent if you must but please remove your faculty for reasoning first. You have been warned.